"Algebra is the offer made made by the devil to the mathematician..." -Sir Michael Atiyah quote in @divbyzero's talk #MAAthFest #mathquotepic.twitter.com/XSJDexaODm
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"Algebra is the offer made made by the devil to the mathematician..." -Sir Michael Atiyah quote in @divbyzero's talk #MAAthFest #mathquotepic.twitter.com/XSJDexaODm
This remark is an echo of a similar one due to Hermann Weyl -- Atiyah's favorite mathematician, and mine. But it all goes back to Newton.
"In these days the angel of topology and the devil of abstract algebra fight for the soul of every individual discipline of mathematics."
From Weyl's paper, "Algebra and Topology as Two Roads to Mathematical Comprehension." For the quote itself, see: http://bit.ly/2vcBWly
As for Newton, he called algebra "the mathematics of bunglers," and declared it "fit to find out, but entirely unfit to consign to writing."
Of course Newton was also beyond question among the greatest masters of algebra that that great and noble art has ever known.
Newton is perhaps the most enigmatic of them all. But this is to be expected of a figure of such transcendent genius. Greatest mind ever.
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